Please make money.

"No, it's reality. We have spent too much money recently, especially with a lot of non-normal expenses and unexpected reductions in production revenue."

Prime Minister Lei gathered the documents together and said, "Miss, you must have forgotten that our production line has not been shipping normally for almost a month and a half, right?"

"Ah this——"

"On one hand, there are expenditures, and on the other hand, there is a reduction in income. Is it hard to understand that there is no money?"

"But we still had hundreds of billions before!"

"Yes, it's all gone."

"Impossible! Absolutely impossible!"

"The year-end bonus starts at 15% of salary, and the highest salary for an employee is 710 million. How much money has been spent on this alone this year?"

"Year-end and the like, that's part of the plan!"

“You spend more money than you planned.”

"Didn't we just make 30 billion?"

"Mazda spent 10 billion to acquire shares."

"What about the remaining 20 billion?"

"The order for drone production is not 600,000 or 800,000 units, but a full million units."

Prime Minister Lei took out a stack of reports and said, "Including other equipment, machinery from the heavy industry, and the purchase of various emergency supplies, the total amount is 10 billion."

The cost of a single drone is as high as five thousand yuan, but Alia managed to produce one million drones in just one and a half months.

The screws at Mr. Cao's place are so tight that smoking is coming out. In the past, it was workers who tightened the screws, and later it was the screws that tightened the workers, and they paid extra money to hire workers to work overtime.

"Even if we spend 10 billion here...well, there's still 10 billion left, right?"

"What about the various payments made at the beginning of the year? Others keep accounts, but we pay them in cash. Who said that we should not owe any money during the Chinese New Year and have a prosperous New Year?"

Prime Minister Lei knocked on the table and said, "Don't forget that there are so many orders. The more goods we have, the more we have to pay for the cost. The more we pay, the less money we have."

So the more orders you place, the less money you will have, which is reasonable...

"Another problem is that during the Chinese New Year period, we have not yet received payment for many of the goods we shipped."

Firstly, everyone has to take a holiday, so who would be there to coordinate your finances during the New Year?

Secondly, for more than a month, the Ai Group had relied entirely on inventory to supply goods, and they were also short of goods to sell.

"That's not right! How come I remembered there were still billions the day before yesterday?"

"Tianrun Department Stores in seven provinces have merged their warehouses, and the Aililai supermarket chain has only seven provincial capital stores, but how much does it cost?"

"what……"

"The revenue of Aililai Supermarket itself is not enough to support this level of expansion. The money was given by the headquarters."

Prime Minister Lei picked up the document that Alia had just signed: "Here, 9 billion, the last money."

"...In other words, I still had 9 billion before?"

Alia was shocked. Just writing her own name, just three words, cost 9 billion?

"On average, each provincial capital directly-operated store has a budget of about 1 billion, which is actually low."

Prime Minister Lei took off his glasses and said, "You promised to give the 2 billion to Jiang's Group. I don't have any objection this time."

Prime Minister Lei and Jiang Tianyi don't get along because Jiang Tianyi's father is a bastard.

But what Jiang Tianyi did this time, or the help that Jiang Group provided to Ai Group this time, was enormous.

In the 22 southern provinces, seven new stores based on material warehouses and logistics parks basically rely on each other's goods supply channels.

In other words, the property department of the Ai Group is simply using a chicken to lay eggs.

With 7 billion yuan, they can open branches in the core areas of the capitals of seven provinces, and even enter the large supermarket market.

On the contrary, Lei Cheng felt that the 2 billion yuan in friend fees was not unfair at all.

If you do it yourself normally, let alone opening a store, it would be considered fast if you could spend three or two years to sort out the regional supply chain.

The store was opened in just one month, and he even suspected that the Jiang Group was treating him like a fool.

Upon closer inspection, it turned out that Prime Minister Lei had tricked Alia into signing without saying a word.

Oh, it can’t be called cheating, it should be said that she was notified to sign.

This is quite similar to the way Alia treats her sister Jing - sister, please kneel down first, I want to ask you a favor.

Prime Minister Lei himself has a clear conscience and is very open and honest.

Not only did he not get any benefits, but he used all his commission to subsidize the group's household expenses.

Aaliyah smacked her lips, was dazed for a moment, and accepted the reality that she had become a pauper.

And after looking at the basic financial statements, she was not completely pauper, but was just temporarily poor during the New Year period.

It changed from that terrible cash cow to a fat cow that needed to graze and grow for a month or two.

Or maybe this is the normal attitude. Who doesn't owe money to start a company?

A company that is frantically engaged in research and development, paying premium for talent, and injecting capital every day, and yet has such abundant cash flow, what a freak!

If Alia hadn't been able to bring back the safe every time she went out, the Ai Group would have gone through this stage earlier.

After all, the Dongjiao Chip Research Institute and the Dongjiao Liquid Crystal Factory are two huge money-eating beasts that only eat and never poop.

It would be difficult for others to support such a money-eating beast. If the Ai Group calculates carefully, it can add a heavy industry department.

The heavy industry department that pointed out the electromagnetic and motor technology lines is currently trying to open new lines. It is expected that R&D investment will be greater than profits next year and even in the next two years.

Raising three gold-eating beasts at once, if it weren't for Lei Chengxiang's family's support, it wouldn't be as simple as just a medium-sized one...

"But we have New Year's Day to celebrate!"

"What are your plans for spending money during the New Year?"

Prime Minister Lei picked up the coffee cup and looked at Alia quietly.

Go ahead and tell me, I'm listening, what else do you want to do?

“…Nothing…”

"Really? If not, then I'll get busy. You have to give me five times the overtime pay."

"Hey hey hey - wait a minute, there's something small. It's just...didn't we give red envelopes to employees during the Chinese New Year..."

"Okay." Prime Minister Lei nodded: "How much?"

"So many?" Alia held up a finger cautiously.

"one hundred?"

"How can it be?!"

"That means one thousand? One hundred thousand people, one thousand for each person?"

"..." Alia blinked, and blinked again.

Prime Minister Lei looked at her quietly, letting the steam from the coffee cup rise between them.

Aaliyah stood with her hands behind her back and said nothing. Her eyes began to drift left and right. After a while, she confessed in a low voice.

"...Ten thousand."

"cough--"

"It can't be less! And the engineers and mechanics on the front line of the engineering corps should also be rewarded, right? That should be doubled! At least three times!"

"Miss, let me do the math for you. There are four engineering regiments, and each has an average of 12 engineering teams, which is 48 in total. Add in the communications and transportation teams, which is 70 in total. That means there are nearly workers from the heavy industry who participated in the rescue operation. Each person received yuan, which is million yuan."

"……right!"

"Adding the other things together, just for giving out red envelopes, Miss, are you going to give out 1.5 billion?"

"That's right!" Alia was a little stubborn: "It's not that I don't have money! I just don't have money temporarily!"

As long as this Spring Festival is over and everyone goes back to work, won't the group thaw and come back to life?

Prime Minister Lei sighed, flipped through the documents at hand, took out one that had been prepared long ago and handed it over.

"Then you can call Manager Qian - Oh, he got promoted to vice president. Of course, it's usually more polite to call him president."

Generally, people don't address people as deputy positions. If the other person's surname is "Fu" or "Fu", then just call them by their position.

"What's this?"

"Loan contract." Prime Minister Lei took a sip of coffee and said, "Mortgage the building."

Is this some kind of path dependency?

This was not the first time that the Ai Group mortgaged a building. Last time, Alia exchanged one of the three buildings for 1 billion yuan.

Later I paid it back, but the bank was quite reluctant to let me go - the interest rate on this thing is so high!

What’s more important is that it is stable and banks are eager to release the money within seconds.

Others need to conduct risk assessment, credit rating and mortgage guarantee requirements when approving loans.

But it is obvious with one’s eyes that Ai Group’s office buildings are high-quality assets, so what are the banks afraid of?

"Fine--"

Ailia didn't have any psychological barriers, so she picked up the phone and contacted President Qian.

"Hello? President Qian? I'm Xiao Ai from the Ai Group... Oh, yes, yes, I heard that you got promoted, so I came to congratulate you. It's the New Year and you get promoted, double happiness... Ah? Your wife is pregnant too? That's triple happiness - oh, congratulations, I should have come to visit you earlier... Oh, it's nothing serious, just a small matter, I want to discuss it with you... Small matter, really small matter, you see, I want to mortgage my group building to your bank in exchange for 20 billion cash, you see... During the New Year, red envelopes should of course be in cash! It's best to use new banknotes... Hello? President Qian, are you okay? What turned over? Be careful - oh, and take another million coins, thank you, if you have commemorative coins, take million..."

Lele was grinding coffee nearby, wondering, "If this is in cash, it can't be distributed to employees who are going home for the New Year?"

"You can give it out when you come back to work." Prime Minister Lei was very open-minded: "And don't forget that the employees of the four engineering groups have all returned one after another."

"Oh, real money will be given as a reward for everyone's hard work - I understand, I understand."

"Le Le, go call the person in charge of the advertising department. Remember not to let too many people see it, but also don't let too many people see it."

"Hmm? What's going on?"

"Think of a way to spread the news that the group is out of money secretly but quickly."

Lele blinked for a few seconds, pulled the corners of his mouth, and poured the other person some coffee from the moka pot.

"Master is right..."

"Hmm? What did Mr. An say?"

"She once said that the fishing habit is contagious."

"...?"

420-Eat the feast!

It is a basic operation for first-class companies to sell buildings.

Alia didn't think there was anything wrong with it, after all, she just had no money temporarily.

But this news still spread out at the speed of light, even faster than the speed of light - accelerated synchronization! Even the speed of light can be surpassed!

The first person to learn about this situation was not a friendly competitor, but Mr. Huo, who had been paying close attention to the Ai Group.

Alia was very suspicious that this old man had planted a mole in the group.

——Could it be Prime Minister Lei?

But there was no evidence, and more importantly, Boss Huo came to give her money.

"Girl, you can't mortgage the building if you don't have money!"

"I'm not listed, so what should I be afraid of? Afraid that the stock price will be cut in half?"

"Tsk - you're making it very difficult for everyone..."

what does it mean?

He ruined his family fortune to help others in need, put all his assets on the line in one go, and then helped a bunch of ungrateful people?

Boss Huo walked back and forth with his hands behind his back: "You have to know that some things can't be done so quickly... The basic process still needs to be followed..."

Alia was full of questions. What is this basic process? Are we all talking about the same topic?